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Issues involving the way mainstream media has often had bias in reporting stories regarding mainstream corporate mental health system.

Just as there's a movement for accountability in the mental health system, there is also a social change movement of critics of mainstream corporate media calling for more professionalism and fairness. This folder has a few examples of where these two social change movements overlap.

media and mental health issues

May 11, 2013...Join MindFreedom host, SOPHIE FAUGHT and activist filmmaker, LISE ZUMWALT to talk about forced drugging and her first feature film, "That's Crazy," which documents one man's decision to take his treatment into his own hands, defying a commitment order and an order to treat while searching for recovery. LIVE on Saturday, May 11th, at 2 pm ET, 11 am PT. We'll be taking your calls at (646) 595-2125 .

Live from Alternatives 2010 in Anaheim, California: MindFreedom director David Oaks says more than 1,000 mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors have registered, and there's lots of great news. But rather than cover this news, The Huffington Post is once more carrying a political attack by extremist D. J. Jaffe. You can ask The Huffington Post why they broadcast hate speech about our people, but they do not broadcast any voice from the "mad movement" itself. [Update 5 Oct. 2010]

Frank Blankenship is chair of the MindFreedom Affiliate Support Committee, as well as liaison to MindFreedom Virginia. Frank was quoted in the Charlottesville newspaper as critical of government efforts to prevent catastrophes like the Virginia Tech mass murders. Here is Frank's follow-up letter to the editor that was published on 13 May 2008.

One of the easiest ways you can change the mental health system is to submit a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. It's one of the most read sections. Here are a few that have been published.

Maths Jesperson is a long-time psychiatric survivor activist, leader and actor in Sweden, who is calling upon psychiatric survivors and allies all over the world to submit comments to an online medical magazine. This magazine covers all kinds of medical topics, but the editor, who is a psychiatrist, has reached out to psychiatric survivors and allies to ask for their commentary, and articles.

Here are several Mad radio shows and one Non-Mad radio show you may listen to about changing the mental health system, all hosted by MindFreedom members who are psychiatric survivors! All may be heard on the web.

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Gabriel Hadd

MFI Shield issued a public alert that young musician and artist Gabe Hadd was under court-ordered involuntary outpatient psychiatric drugging in Michigan. Members in Colorado offered personal support. Gabe successfully escaped over state lines and evaded the forced psychiatric drugging in his own home. You can hear Gabe's music at www.myspace.com/gabrielhadd.